50. “Doctors Remove Benign Lump from Breast of Rosalynn Carter,” Toledo Blade, April 29, 1977.
51. “Mrs. Carter ‘Just Fine’ Following Minor Surgery,” Ellensburg Daily Record, August 15, 1977.
Chapter 16
1. Barbara Bush, Barbara Bush: A Memoir (New York: Scribner, 1994), 283.
2. George W. Bush, Decision Points (New York: Crown, 2010).
3. B. Bush, A Memoir, 27, 36, 38, 47, 53–4.
4. Ibid., 39–49.
5. Thyroid Newsmakers: Barbara Bush, http.//www.coulditbemythyroid.com/Book-Exprts/nsmaker-BBush.html (April 18, 2011).
6. B. Bush, A Memoir, 283.
7. “Barbara Bush Says Thyroid Condition Caused Weight Loss,” New York Times, March 30, 1989: “big, puffy, horrible eyes”; B. Bush, A Memoir, 283, for Dr. Lee’s reaction. “I did not want pop eyes.”
8. New York Times, March 30, 1989, “wacko”; B. Bush, A Memoir, 283: “berserk.”
9. B. Bush A Memoir, 284; New York Times, March 30, 1989; “Barbara Bush Being Treated for Graves’ Disease, a Thyroid Disorder,” Los Angeles Times, March 30, 1989.
10. “Form of Cortisone Prescribed for First Lady’s Eye Ailment,” New York Times, August 23, 1989.
11. Graves’ disease, Diffuse thyrotoxic goiter, PubMed Health, http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0001398/ (accessed June 5, 2011); Rebecca Bahn, “Unlocking the Mysteries of Graves’ Ophthalmopathy,” Newsletter of the Graves’ Disease Foundation (Fall 2009); Seema Kumar, Sarah Nadeem, et al: “A Stimulatory TSH Receptor Antibody Enhances Adipogenesis Via Phosphoinositide 3-Kinase Activation in Orbital Preadipocytes from Patients with Graves’ Ophthalmopathy,” Journal of Molecular Endocrinology 46, no. 3 (June 2011), 156–163.
12. Peter Smyth, PA: “Graves, Robert James (1796–1853),” Milestones in European Thyroidology. European Thyroid Association, http://www.eurothyroid.com/about/met/graves.php (accessed June 9, 2011).
13. New York Times, August 23, 1989.
14. “Stable, Barbara Bush Learned, After Two Hours of Tests,” Orlando Sentinel, November 29, 1989; “Radiation Therapy Is Weighed for Mrs. Bush,” New York Times, December 1, 1989.
15. B. Bush, A Memoir, 353.
16. “First Lady Begins Radiation Treatment,” Washington Post, January 4, 1990; “First Lady Starts Radiation Therapy for Eyes,” New York Times, January 4, 1990.
17. B. Bush, A Memoir, 264–89.
18. Devin Dwyer, “Barbara Bush May Be Released from Hospital,” ABC News, March 30, 2010; Devin Dwyer, Ann Compton and Gina Sunseri: “Former First Lady Barbara Bush Had ‘Mild Relapse’ of Graves’ Disease,” ABC News, March 31, 2010.
19. Lawrence Altman, “Every Time, Bush Says ‘Ah,’ Second Guessers of His Doctor Cry ‘Aha,’” New York Times, February 18, 1992; “Bush’s Physicians Say Thyroid Gland Disrupted Heart,” New York Times, May 8, 1991.
20. Dennis Breo, “Tough Talk from the President’s Physician,” Journal of the American Medical Association 262, no. 9 (November 17, 1989): 2742–5.
21. B. Bush, A Memoir, 411–2.
22. “Barbara Bush to Aid Group in Boston Speech Planned for Thyroid Fund,” Boston Globe, July 21, 1992.
23. Graves’ Disease Foundation: Onsite Support Bulletin Board, post by Dianne Smith November 15, 1996, http://www.ngdf.org/phpBB/ngdf/viewtopic.php?f+4&t+372 (accessed June 7, 2011): “They both do public service announcements for the Thyroid Society here in Houston”; Nancy Hord Patterson, telephone interview, June 13, 2011: information regarding the Graves’ Disease Foundation. Both Bushes were made honorary members while they still inhabited the White House.
24. Graves’ Disease Foundation: Onsite Support Bulletin Boards, posts by Gwen Shannon, June 8, 1997, http:/ngdf.org/phpBB/ngdf/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=3185 (accessed June 7, 2011); Nancy Hord Patterson, telephone interview, June 13, 2011.
25. Barbara Bush, Reflections: Life After the White House (New York: Scribner, 2003).
26. Ibid., 11–12.
27. Ibid., 12.
28. Ibid., 35: for Dr. Orton; “Barbara Bush Hospitalized for Pneumonia in Texas,” New York Times, December 31, 2013: for miscellaneous hospitalizations at Houston’s Methodist Hospital.
29. Connie Mariano, The White House Doctor: My Patients Were Presidents: A Memoir (New York: St. Martin’s, 2010), 190.
30. Hillary Clinton, Living History (New York: Scribner, 2003), 258–259.
31. Ibid., 148.
32. “Court Rules That First Lady Is ‘De Facto’ Federal Official,” New York Times, June 23, 1993.
33. Clinton, 84.
34. Mariano, 188–190.
35. Clinton, 482.
36. Mariano, 188–190.
37. Ibid.; Clinton, 482.
38. Deep vein thrombosis (DVT), Mayo Clinic, http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/deep-vein-thrombois/DS01005 (accessed August 26, 2013); “Deep Vein Thrombosis Overview,” Society of Interventional Radiology, http://www.sirweb.org/patients/deep-vein-thrombosis/ (accessed August 26, 2013).
39. Clinton, 482; Deep Vein thrombosis (DVT): Mayo Clinic listed causes of DVT.
40. Clinton, 482; Mariano, 188–190.
41. Mariano, 190.
42. Mariano, personal communication, July 1, 2013.
43. Deppisch, The White House Physician. For a review of the White House Medical Unit, read Chapter 11, 150–158.
44. Richard Tubb, personal interview, August 11, 2011.
45. Mariano, personal communication.
46. “Fear for Hillary Clinton as She Is Rushed to Hospital with Blood Clot Just Three Weeks After Suffering Concussion,” London Daily Mail December 31, 2012; “Hillary Clinton Recovering at Home Following Concussion Caused by Fall,” London Guardian, December 15, 2012; “Hillary Clinton Making ‘Excellent Progress’ Doctors Say,” USA Today, January 1, 2013.
47. “Laura Bush: Skin Cancer ‘No Big Deal,’” Washington Post, December 19, 2006.
48. Laura Bush, Spoken from the Heart (New York: Scribner, 2010), 4–6, for her mother’s pregnancy history, 90, for Laura Bush’s professional career.
49. Ibid., 105.
50. Ibid., 106–7.
51. Jim Rutenberg, “The First Lady’s Skin Cancer,” Caucus, http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2006/12/19/the-first-ladys-skin-cancer (accessed August 31, 2013); James Joyner, “Laura Bush Skin Cancer Flap,” Outside the Beltway, December 19, 2006, http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/laura_bush_skin_cancer_flap/ (accessed June 19, 2011); “White House Stayed Quiet on Laura Bush Cancer Surgery,” (UK) Independent, December 20, 2006; “Laura Bush: Skin Cancer ‘No Big Deal,’” Washington Post, December 19, 2006; Bush, Spoken from the Heart, 182.
52. UK Independent, December 20, 2006.
53. Washington Post, December 19, 2006.
54. Rutenberg.
55. Face the Nation, CBS, December 24, 2006.
56. Bush, Spoken from the Heart, 382.
57. “First Lady Cancels Trip to Australia,” Los Angeles Times, August 27, 2007.
58. “Laura Bush Has Surgery for Pinched Nerve,” New York Times, September 8, 2007; “Successful Neck Surgery for First Lady Laura Bush,” Fox News, September 8, 2007; Richard Tubb, personal interview.
59. Bush, Spoken from the Heart, 382; Fox News, September 8, 2007; New York Times, September 8, 2007; quote in personal communication with Emanuel Husu, M.D.
60. Chapter Fifteen.
61. Fox News, September 7, 2007.
Chapter 17
1. Learning Center, American Diagnostic Corporation, “History of the Sphygmomanometer,” http://adctoday.com/learning-center/about-sphygmomanometers/history-sphygmomanometer (accessed January 7, 2014).
2. Elizabeth G. Nabel and Eugene Braunwald, “A Tale of Coronary Artery Disease and Myocardial Infarction,” New England Journal of Medicine 366 (January 5, 2012): 54–63.
3. “Cancer Facts and Figures for 2013,” American Cancer Society, http://www.cancer.org/acs/groups/content/@epidemiologysurveilance/documents/document/acspc–036845.pdf (accessed January 7,
2014).
4. Steven W. Pray, “Meniere’s Disease,” Medscape Multispecialty, http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/509085_2?pa=SYenn1R3OKikkgP%2FeFKQuu%2BC525D2cB2h2t4%2BvRiMnghdgfPvHvy8Pq7ORlu7IzpyDBGK1Oqidp4D2%2FHGprWCA%3D%3D (accessed January 7, 2014).
5. Jim Yeung Sai-Ching, “Graves’ Disease,” Medscape, http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/120619-overview#a0199 (accessed January 7, 2014).
6. Myra G. Gutin, Barbara Bush: Presidential Matriarch (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2008), 20.
7. “Medical Ethics: Confidentiality and Duty to Report,” University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine, Ethics in Clerkships, http://www.uic.edu/depts/mcam/ethics/confidentiality.htm (accessed January 3, 2014).
8. Connie Mariano, personal communication, August 12, 2011.
9. “Laura Bush: Skin Cancer ‘No Big Deal,’” Washington Post, December 19, 2006.
10. James Joyner, “Laura Bush Skin Cancer Flap,” Outside the Beltway, December 19, 2006, http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/laura_bush_skin_cancer_flap/ (accessed June 19, 2011).
11. “Medical Ethics, Confidentiality and Duty to Report.”
12. Joyner.
13. Robert Pear, “Court Rules That First Lady Is ‘De Facto’ Federal Official,” New York Times, June 23, 1993.
14. Carl Anthony, personal communication, July 28, 2013.
15. “Obama’s NSA Plan to Pre-Empt Privacy Board,” USA Today, January 9, 2014; Scott Horsley, NPR, “Civil Liberties Groups Call for Obama to Enact NSA Changes,” http://www.npr.org/2013/12/19/25559764/civil-liberties-groups-call (accessed January 1, 2014); “N.Y. Judge: NSA Spying ‘Imperils Civil Liberties of Every Citizen’ but ‘Legal,’” New American, December 27, 2013.
16. “Patient Privacy Goes Out the Window and into the Obamacare Data Hub,” American Thinker, November 9, 2013; “Obamacare and Confidentiality,” Patheos, September 18, 2013.
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